Thom Yorke to Contribute Music to Twilight Sequel Soundtrack?

It's probably too much to hope that Thom Yorke has been staying up all night voraciously consuming young adult fiction. But according to the director of New Moon, the forthcoming second movie in the absolutely ridiculous Twilight trilogy, Yorke is interested in doing some work for the soundtrack.

In an interview with Rotten Tomatoes (via TwentyFourBit), New Moon director Chris Weitz had this to say about the movie's soundtrack: "Fortunately, I'm not at the stage where I have to turn anybody down yet, because everything is still kind of up in the air, but I am surprised at some of the bands that have said they're interested. It's kind of great. The criterion will still always be what's right for the movie at that given moment, but Thom Yorke is interested. We might, if we're very lucky, get Kings of Leon to do something... It's exciting to be able to have access to this kind of talent."

I honestly don't know which is funnier: the idea of Thom Yorke offering to write tunes for a teenybopper vampire romance or the prospect of Chris Weitz turning him down.

Yorke's rep would neither confirm nor deny what Weitz said, but this looks suspiciously like Weitz talking out of his ass, sort of like when Terminator Salvation director McG suggested that Yorke might do some music for that movie. But as TwentyFourBit helpfully points out, Radiohead's "15 Step" did play over the closing credits of the first Twilight movie, so who knows.

In related news, that moment in the New Moon trailer where the kid turns into a wolf is fucking hilarious.